As Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine

[riversedge]

01/17/2025
As Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/hpv-vaccine-lowers-cervical-cancer-deaths/




In 2006, a vaccine for the human papillomavirus (HPV) became widely available to adolescents. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection, and it can cause cancers of the mouth, throat, and sexual organs. It’s also the cause of nearly every case of cervical cancer.

Now, almost 20 years after the HPV vaccine was introduced, a study published in JAMA noted a 62% drop in deaths due to cervical cancer in women under 25 in the US: from 50 or 60 deaths per year to 13. This follows earlier research that noted a decrease in cervical precancer and cancer since the introduction of the vaccine.

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[Walleye]

1. Einstein or somebody said, more people were hurt by bad politics than by bad science

[riversedge]

6. I am sure that is true.......think of all the wars over the centuries!!

[surfered]

2. Don't tell RFK, Jr, he'll screw it up

[sinkingfeeling]

3. RFK Jr. wants to end the vaccine.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/kennedy-played-key-role-vaccine-case-against-merck-2025-01-18/

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[central scrutinizer]

4. When it came out in 2006

We immediately signed up our daughter (then 15 yo).

[Aristus]

7. Oh great. Just what we need: a reason for the god-bothering anti-vaxx shitheads to go around

proclaiming cervical cancer to be the will of God.